mental health tips

Are You Aware of Your Mental Health?

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [your mental health struggles], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry I love talking about mental health and I find it quite helpful and needful to talk about mental health with my clients, […]

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November Gratitude: A Ruminators Guide to Being Content in the Now

DESIGNED BY PIXABAY “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” —Socrates We all have down days where we feel discouraged, defeated and troubled. Ruminating, however, is when we experience excessive, intrusive, and negative thoughts about experiences and feelings for an extended period of time. For example, a person with a history of trauma may […]

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Powering Down to Recharge

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have.” ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar You feel restless. Your eating habits have changed. You are awake at all hours of the night. You have lost all motivation. You have no energy or desire to socialize. […]

The Link Between Insomnia and Mental Illness

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”  ~ David Benioff (co-creator of Game of Thrones) Surely you have experienced a poor night’s sleep. You […]

“Bookending” Your Day With Morning and Evening Routines

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH We are all aware of using either morning or nightly routines to be productive and either jumpstart our morning or end the day on a positive note. But how many of us use both morning and nightly routines with the intent of reaching our goals? In September, I wrote in detail about […]